Does anybody care to explain this? I don't see where the function iterates through the string. I see it returning the larger of two options, digits[0, 5] and ... this "solution(digits.substr(1)". digits.substr(1) means go from [1] to the end of the string. I don't know what the word solution is doing. Google didn't turn up a method or anything so it looks to me like a variable instantiation.